A MODEL who mysteriously disappeared from New York last year — after taking part in a Dolce & Gabbana campaign — has been found in a slum in Brazil. Eloisa Pinto Fontes, 26, was found wandering through the slum “completely disorientated” by a local neighbourhood watch team. Fontes was found in the Morro do Cantagalo […]
A MODEL who mysteriously disappeared from New York last year — after taking part in a Dolce & Gabbana campaign — has been found in a slum in Brazil.
Eloisa Pinto Fontes, 26, was found wandering through the slum “completely disorientated” by a local neighbourhood watch team.
Fontes was found in the Morro do Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, in the south-east of the country, on Tuesday after disappearing from her Manhattan home on June 4 last year.
She was spotted wandering through the slum by a local neighbourhood watch.
They had received a tip-off about an unknown woman who had been seen walking around the favela for two days.
According to local media, she was found carrying a rucksack containing documents of her contracts with international modelling agencies and references from international photographers.
However, Fontes has gone missing in the past.
She vanished from New York City earlier in 2019 and was found five days later, visibly disorientated, in a street in the city of White Plains.
This was roughly 30 minutes by car from her home in central Manhattan.
She was walking through the community completely disorientated… we were able to locate her and rescue her
Neighbourhood watch representative Antonio Carlos dos Santos
Her career, which had also taken her to Europe, dried up shortly after this incident.
Fontes was married from 2014 to 2016 to 38-year-old Russian-Romanian supermodel Andre Birleanu, who once appeared on the TV programme America’s Most Smartest Model.
He became notorious for his aggressive demeanour. Birleanu has custody of the couple’s 7-year-old daughter.
The latest information is that the model is receiving care and updates on her condition are being provided to family members.
According to neighbourhood watch representative Antonio Carlos dos Santos, the model was disorientated and was taken to the Philippe Pinel Psychiatric Institute in the Botafogo neighbourhood, where she is being assisted by a medical team.
He said: “She was walking through the community completely disorientated. And yesterday we were able to locate her and rescue her.”
